Hearts And Minds: Ambitious, compelling and utterly gripping' Maggie O'Farrell

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Rich or poor, five people, seemingly very different, find their lives in the capital connected in undreamed-of ways. There is Job, the illegal mini-cab driver whose wife in Zimbabwe no longer answers his letters; Ian, the idealistic supply teacher in exile from South Africa; Katie from New York, jilted and miserable as a dogsbody at a political magazine, and fifteen-year-old Anna, trafficked into sexual slavery. Polly Noble, an overworked human rights lawyer, knows better than most how easy it is to fall through the cracks into the abyss. Yet when her au pair, Iryna, disappears, Polly s own needs and beliefs drag her family into a world of danger, deceit and terror.

Riveting, humane, engaging, HEARTS AND MINDS is a novel that is both entertaining and prepared to ask the most serious questions about the way we live.

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A novel written with passion and moral outrage. It is a vivid portrait of a city that is at once familiar and disconcertingly strange * The Times *
A novel written with passion and moral outrage. It is a vivid portrait of a city that is at once familiar and disconcertingly strange * The Times *
Skilfully mixes skilled reportage (once a journalist, always a journalist) with a filmic sensibility...You can't put this novel down, even if babies are yelling and the pots are boiling over * Independent *
Skilfully mixes skilled reportage (once a journalist, always a journalist) with a filmic sensibility...You can't put this novel down, even if babies are yelling and the pots are boiling over * Independent *
Craig's excellence lies in her ability to underpin everything with hope and the promise of redemption...She has written a sympathetic, thought-provoking and often deeply moving account of the strange, shifting beast that is our capital * Telegraph *
Craig's excellence lies in her ability to underpin everything with hope and the promise of redemption...She has written a sympathetic, thought-provoking and often deeply moving account of the strange, shifting beast that is our capital * Telegraph *
She is a humane writer as well a waspish one and it is the plight of London's migrant workers and sink-school pupils with which she is primarily concerned here, and her passion and care are affecting * Observer *
She is a humane writer as well a waspish one and it is the plight of London's migrant workers and sink-school pupils with which she is primarily concerned here, and her passion and care are affecting * Observer *
Acutely observed, purposeful, dynamic...Perfectly conjures the capital's beautiful, broken carousel * Times Literary Supplement *
Acutely observed, purposeful, dynamic...Perfectly conjures the capital's beautiful, broken carousel * Times Literary Supplement *
A large kindness overarches the novel * Guardian *
A large kindness overarches the novel * Guardian *
Very special...ambitious, compelling and utterly gripping * Maggie O'Farrell *
Very special...ambitious, compelling and utterly gripping * Maggie O'Farrell *
** 'This is a novel written with passion and moral outrage. It is a vivid portrait of a city that is at once familiar and disconcertingly strange * THE TIMES Joan Smith *
** 'Rich, Dickensian * SUNDAY TIMES Penny Perrick *
** 'She is a humane writer as well a waspish one and it is the plight of London's migrant workers and sink-school pupils with which she is primarily concerned here, and her passion and care are affecting * OBSERVER Lisa OKelly *
** 'There is much in HEARTS AND MINDS to praise . . . The book displays the author's relentless compassion. A large kindness overarches the novel * GUARDIAN Stevie Davies *

Author Bio

Amanda Craig is a well-known journalist and broadcaster. She is the author of A VICIOUS CIRCLE, IN A DARK WOOD and LOVE IN IDLENESS.